Hello john, welcome to indonesia... I'm a newbie in this milist, and just joined few days ago...
Well, I think you have problem with old hardware... And, if you use indonesian distro they might be run slowly coz usually they compiled in i386 machine... I suggest you use gentoo distro. Here's the reasons: 1. gentoo was compiled in specific machine (i386, i686, amd, etc) so they can run faster... 2. gentoo has huge collection of packages and still developed... 3. you can update gentoo packages via internet 4. about bahasa indonesia, i don't think it's gonna be a problem. If people have been accustomed to work with win98, they are familiar with computer terms. They'll just need little adaptation. OK john... -----Original Message----- From: John Orford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:42 PM To: tanya-jawab@linux.or.id Subject: Re: [tanya-jawab] Hello Hi, Thanks for the reply! On Tuesday 08 March 2005 06:30, kedut kedut wrote: > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:11:32 +0100, John Orford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just joined. I'm from Ireland but will be visiting Jakarta / Java / > > Bali (and probably more) from next week for a month. > > Hello John, well before you get here I'd like to say: WELCOME TO INDONESIA! Hehe :) actually I am looking forward to Indonesia a lot. I've never been to Asia but have read lots about Asia and Indonesia in the last few years - so expectations are high! I just hope that I can get used to the heat and humidity - Ireland is the total opposite to indonesia weather-wise. No problem john... You will!! > > > I have been given the task to breath life back into my Girlfriend's > > family's home and office computers. They use Windows 98 and sound very > > old. > > I don't think I understand your question here (my english's bad...very > bad!), but I think you just want to say that you wanna change your > Girlfriend's O/S, am I right with that? Yeah. (Your English is much better than my Indonesian ;)) Basically they run Win98 - and from what I hear they are full of viruses / spyware etc. > > > Anyway, I would appreciate if anyone could give me tips about good > > internet cafes where I could download extra packages etc. that may be > > necessary, and also Bahasa Indonesia friendly distributions. Plus, your > > opinions on easy to use software that will run on old hardware would be > > very helpful. > > I think I can't help you with this! but as long as I know, there's so > much Internet cafe (we called it WARNET) in Depok, near the Gunadarma > University! btw what do you mean by "extra packages"? E.G. if i find a winmodem - and don't have the right driver, i'll need to download it... > about the Bahasa > Indonesia distribution, (I guess we're talking about GNU/Linux Distro > here, right?) AFAIK there 's a distro that use bahasa indonesia as the > default language called "BlankOn Linux", it's based on FedoraCore, but > I think it would be too "heavy" for your Girlfriend's computer! why > don't you use "Ubuntu Linux" anyway? In my opinion Ubuntu might run too slowly on pentium 2 type machines (64 or 128 mb ram) - i have a 533mhz celeron, and it is quite slow. i'm not sure if even XFCE would be quick enough. I think stable debian may do the job, with KDE2, KDE 3 or XFCE. For mail I'm thinking of sylpheed, browser would be konqueror, i think firefox would be too slow... Office programs would be Windows 97 running under Crossover... - openoffice is probably too slow. > you can contact me as soon as you > come to jakarta if you want the (Ubuntu) CD's ! > That'd be cool if we could meet up! Do you guys meet up often? Normally in Ireland Linux club members meet every month or two... > > Thanks a lot! > > > > John. > > You're Welcome John. > > > P.S. linux.or.id looks great - our Irish LUG could learn a fair bit from > > you guys. > > That's too much! "We" should gives you a lot of Thanks for that, and > I'm sorry for my English! Well you have a wiki, forum, mailing list, blog pages... etc. - it all seems very promising. > > p/s: buat yang laen; koq ga ada yang mo bales sih? tunjukkan dong > keramah-tamahan orang Indonesia!!! :) as far as i remember i got two personal off list replies from members - i'm happy with the feedback i got. -- Unsubscribe: kirim email kosong ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arsip, FAQ, dan info milis di http://linux.or.id/milis Tidak bisa posting? Baca: http://linux.or.id/problemmilis http://linux.or.id/tatatertibmilis -- Unsubscribe: kirim email kosong ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arsip, FAQ, dan info milis di http://linux.or.id/milis Tidak bisa posting? Baca: http://linux.or.id/problemmilis http://linux.or.id/tatatertibmilis
